Caligula Page #5

Synopsis: The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
Genre: Drama, History
Production: Analysis Releasing
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
23%
UNRATED
Year:
1979
156 min
2,308 Views


-Guards, arrest Macro.

415

00:
53:27,412 -- 00:53:29,412

Don't you dare.

416

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53:59,407 -- 00:54:01,407

Forgive me, Caesar...

417

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54:03,032 -- 00:54:03,931

Ah, Caerea.

418

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54:04,031 -- 00:54:06,156

Two senators beg to see you.

419

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54:06,256 -- 00:54:08,083

They have a disputable land.

420

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54:08,183 -- 00:54:11,862

And they wait your judgment.

-Ah, bring them in.

421

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54:11,962 -- 00:54:13,962

Bring them in.

422

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54:14,163 -- 00:54:20,010

I'm interesting all there is Rome,

even down to the land of the Toga.

423

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54:20,400 -- 00:54:22,400

Amnar.

424

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54:36,018 -- 00:54:39,271

Caesar, I must complain

about the vow...

425

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54:39,371 -- 00:54:41,371

Give me the documents.

426

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55:07,849 -- 00:55:10,494

Guilty.

-Thank you. Thank you.

427

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55:10,703 -- 00:55:16,383

Don't thank.

Justice must always be impartial.

428

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55:16,744 -- 00:55:21,764

It is so, Chaerea. Is it?

-Yes.

429

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55:22,942 -- 00:55:24,942

You may go.

430

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56:02,434 -- 00:56:04,434

Ennia.

431

00:
56:12,969 -- 00:56:14,969

You look beautiful.

432

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56:22,291 -- 00:56:24,531

Is it good for growing hair?

433

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56:25,954 -- 00:56:30,434

We'll be married soon.

Divorce will only take a few days.

434

00:
56:32,767 -- 00:56:36,336

I think we should move.

-Move? Where?

435

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56:38,005 -- 00:56:40,036

Alexandria, say.

436

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56:41,287 -- 00:56:43,287

To Egypt?

437

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56:43,975 -- 00:56:45,975

Yeah.

438

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56:46,497 -- 00:56:47,799

What do you think?

439

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56:47,899 -- 00:56:52,099

I'd hate to leave Rome.

I mean, the Senate...

440

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56:52,400 -- 00:56:57,201

No, no, Ennia. I am Rome.

Wherever I am, Rome is.

441

00:
56:57,325 -- 00:57:00,685

There is the Senate

and the people of Rome.

442

00:
57:03,321 -- 00:57:06,921

You don't make me laugh.

The way you say that.

443

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57:16,528 -- 00:57:20,465

Ah, Longinus.

-Forgive us, Caesar.

444

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57:25,100 -- 00:57:26,787

Longinus, is it done?

445

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57:26,887 -- 00:57:29,980

The Senate has

sentenced him to death.

446

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57:33,491 -- 00:57:35,491

The commission.

447

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57:40,150 -- 00:57:43,165

Chaerea, I now officially

appoint you...

448

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57:43,265 -- 00:57:45,745

commander of my imperial guard.

449

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57:46,672 -- 00:57:50,676

But what about Macro?

What happened? Where is he?

450

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57:50,776 -- 00:57:55,016

He has been arrested for treason.

-That's impossible.

451

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57:55,618 -- 00:57:58,278

Caesar, you know

he worshipped you.

452

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57:58,378 -- 00:58:00,378

He made you.

453

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58:06,790 -- 00:58:11,538

Nobody made me.

-I... I can't believe it.

454

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58:12,297 -- 00:58:14,297

What did he do?

455

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58:15,000 -- 00:58:21,001

Ennia. I had to take my destiny,

with my own hands.

456

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58:32,658 -- 00:58:33,669

Guards.

457

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58:33,769 -- 00:58:35,769

Guards.

458

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58:38,380 -- 00:58:40,526

Chaerea. She's to be back.

459

00:
58:41,618 -- 00:58:43,722

I love you.

-To Gal.

460

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58:45,012 -- 00:58:47,012

I love you.

461

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58:48,406 -- 00:58:51,905

Caligula. How could you do it?

He was your friend.

462

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58:52,005 -- 00:58:54,474

He would've done

anything for you.

463

00:
58:54,574 -- 00:58:56,574

Don't send me away.

464

00:
58:57,000 -- 00:58:59,000

I love you.

465

00:
58:59,367 -- 00:59:01,367

Caligula.

466

00:
59:04,432 -- 00:59:07,331

Now at least she doesn't

have to get a divorce.

467

00:
59:07,431 -- 00:59:10,791

But you still have to find

a suitable wife.

468

00:
59:10,989 -- 00:59:12,989

No.

469

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59:17,498 -- 00:59:19,498

I'm going to marry you.

470

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59:19,921 -- 00:59:22,459

You can't.

We're not Egyptians.

471

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59:23,873 -- 00:59:25,873

I know.

472

00:
59:26,046 -- 00:59:28,206

We are much more beautiful.

473

00:
59:28,397 -- 00:59:30,397

Rome is not Egypt.

474

00:
59:30,692 -- 00:59:33,732

And stop looking at yourself

like that.

475

00:
59:36,490 -- 00:59:39,690

Let's go to Egypt then.

-You are a fool.

476

00:
59:40,356 -- 00:59:43,911

Caesar cannot be a fool.

-But he's trying very hard.

477

00:
59:44,011 -- 00:59:47,339

Caesar cannot be a fool.

478

00:
59:47,801 -- 00:59:50,850

Little Boots. They'll

throw you in the Tiber,

479

00:
59:50,950 -- 00:59:53,310

if you temp to move

the government.

480

00:
59:53,410 -- 00:59:56,603

So, you are going to

marry a respectable

481

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59:56,703 -- 00:59:59,503

Roman lady of the

senatorial class.

482

01:
00:01,900 -- 01:00:04,255

No, I'm not.

-Yes, you are.

483

01:
00:04,355 -- 01:00:06,515

You've got to have an heir.

484

01:
00:09,706 -- 01:00:12,426

Who will kill me

when he grows up.

485

01:
00:14,570 -- 01:00:18,810

The priestess of Isis are meeting

at my house tonight.

486

01:
00:19,557 -- 01:00:21,687

You want me to

marry one of them?

487

01:
00:21,787 -- 01:00:22,866

Yes.

488

01:
00:22,966 -- 01:00:24,181

No.

489

01:
00:24,281 -- 01:00:26,281

Yes.

490

01:
00:26,647 -- 01:00:28,647

No.

491

01:
00:29,734 -- 01:00:31,734

Yes.

492

01:
00:47,572 -- 01:00:49,812

I wonder what I should wear.

493

01:
01:17,384 -- 01:01:19,976

When just the performance

for almighty Caesar?

494

01:
01:20,076 -- 01:01:21,174

Don't be disgusting.

495

01:
01:21,274 -- 01:01:24,534

But I'm being practical.

If I'm to chose a wife,

496

01:
01:24,634 -- 01:01:26,652

I want to see what I'm within.

497

01:
01:26,752 -- 01:01:28,752

Logic.

498

01:
01:55,478 -- 01:01:58,518

Out that one looks

rather interesting.

499

01:
01:58,598 -- 01:02:01,141

Livia? Oh, she's

taken. She's to marry

500

01:
02:01,241 -- 01:02:03,306

Proculus, one of your officers.

501

01:
02:03,406 -- 01:02:04,700

I'll send him to Spain.

502

01:
02:04,800 -- 01:02:08,398

She's a virgin. Very boring.

Not your style.

503

01:
03:16,466 -- 01:03:21,119

That will be my wife.

-Oh, no. Not Caesonia.

504

01:
03:22,137 -- 01:03:23,904

Oh. You're impossible.

505

01:
03:24,004 -- 01:03:27,257

She's the most mysterious

woman in Rome.

506

01:
03:27,870 -- 01:03:29,870

Perfect.

507

01:
03:37,468 -- 01:03:42,188

Caesonia's been divorced.

She's extravagant. Always in debt.

508

01:
03:42,547 -- 01:03:46,062

I want her.

-But not for a wife.

509

01:
03:46,717 -- 01:03:48,239

Send her to me now.

510

01:
03:48,339 -- 01:03:51,597

No, Little Boots. I

won't let you do it.

511

01:
03:52,221 -- 01:03:54,221

It wouldn't be wise.

512

01:
03:57,494 -- 01:03:59,370

Yes.

513

01:
03:59,470 -- 01:04:03,710

Such as the will of the senate

and the people of Rome.

514

01:
06:12,111 -- 01:06:15,723

You're very convincing

as a priestess, Caesar.

515

01:
06:17,939 -- 01:06:23,659

And you...

as a sacrificial lamb, Caesonia.

516

01:
07:35,091 -- 01:07:38,282

I told Caesonia that

I would marry her.

517

01:
07:39,062 -- 01:07:40,062

Don't...

518

01:
07:40,162 -- 01:07:41,997

Ah, but only after

she's born me a son.

519

01:
07:42,097 -- 01:07:43,914

How will you ever know it's yours?

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.Vidal was born to a political family; his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as United States senator from Oklahoma (1907–1921 and 1931–1937). He was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office; first to the United States House of Representatives (New York, 1960), then to the U.S. Senate (California, 1982).As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer. Vidal thought all men and women are potentially bisexual, so he rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society.As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, with a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. In the historical novel genre, Vidal re-created in Julian (1964) the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–63), the Roman emperor who used general religious toleration to re-establish pagan polytheism to counter the political subversion of Christian monotheism. In the genre of social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender role and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. In Burr (1973) and Lincoln (1984), the protagonist is presented as "A Man of the People" and as "A Man" in a narrative exploration of how the public and private facets of personality affect the national politics of the U.S. more…

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